My room-mate's computer recently had a bit of a problem with the hard drive. Or so we suspect. The computer stopped working; every time when someone attempted to start it up it just came up with "Disk read error." Couldn't get it to start in safe mode or anything, obviously, since the OS couldn't even be loaded. We installed Windows 7, and that worked...once. And then it went back to having its little bitchfits and would not work. Eventually, a new hard drive was purchased and installed after three hours [for some reason] of effort [I wasn't present during this but I'm told they went into stuff involving IDE emulators and BIOS setting reconfigurations for some reason which completely and totally makes no sense to me given that this was supposedly a hard drive issue and not a motherboard issue, but anyway]. It worked fine after this effort, but this morning the computer was started up again and another disk read error came up. Room-mate booted the thing up through the install disk, it wouldn't scan the drive again so she told it to restart, and it seems to be working fine after several reboots to confirm [though, watch, it'll go fucky again as soon as I finish typing this].
I'm just wondering; is that one failure just an isolated event? Or is it possible that this is a motherboard issue? Take in mind that the data on the old hard-drive was pulled off [not all of it, just documents, games, and a few programs] and put onto the new one. None of the files transferred were in any way related to the OS or drivers, so I highly doubt it was a virus, but I'm not entirely discounting it all the same.
Any opinions, thoughts? If this thing's gonna go fucked up again, I'd rather have an idea of what to do BEFORE it happens.
I'm just wondering; is that one failure just an isolated event? Or is it possible that this is a motherboard issue? Take in mind that the data on the old hard-drive was pulled off [not all of it, just documents, games, and a few programs] and put onto the new one. None of the files transferred were in any way related to the OS or drivers, so I highly doubt it was a virus, but I'm not entirely discounting it all the same.
Any opinions, thoughts? If this thing's gonna go fucked up again, I'd rather have an idea of what to do BEFORE it happens.
